“It was scary to leave everything behind. But it was better to do something than to do nothing.” nbcnews traveled with Ukrainian refugees on a train from Poland to Berlin. Most didn’t speak German. Some were ready to sleep. Many yearned for safety.
, have been forced to give up their homes, professions and families to try to find safety.
But there was no sense of excitement in the air. Instead, the high-ceilinged station and the train cars were filled with a desperate hope for safety, far from everything the refugees knew and loved. She would go back home in a heartbeat, although she harbored little hope that that would be possible any time soon. Three hours into the journey, an announcement came on, telling Ukrainian refugees to change trains at the next stop, Krakow, Poland. The announcer did not explain why.
Larisa Afonina, 52, said the sound of whizzing rockets and blaring sirens in her neighborhood in northern Kyiv had become unbearable. She left for the relative safety of western Ukraine with her two oldest grandchildren, Elena, 14, and Viktor, 13. As the area that reminded them so much of the home they left behind slowly disappeared from view, the family grew silent.
Many passengers wandered up and down the train with puzzled looks on their faces, asking one another whether the train would go all the way to Berlin.
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